- cloud.google.com/go/essentialcontacts: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/eventarc: v1.11.0
- cloud.google.com/go/filestore: v1.6.0
- cloud.google.com/go/functions: v1.13.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gaming: v1.9.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkebackup: v0.4.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkeconnect: v0.7.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkehub: v0.12.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkemulticloud: v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gsuiteaddons: v1.5.0

- `kubectl create configmap` and `kubectl create secret` subcommands now support
  the `--append-hash` flag, which enables unique but deterministic naming for
  objects generated from files, for example with `--from-file`.

- `kubectl run` can set a service account name in the generated pod
  spec with the `--serviceaccount` flag.

### Network
- The official kube-proxy image (used by kubeadm, among other things) is now compatible with systems running iptables 1.8 in "nft" mode, and will autodetect which mode it should use. ([#82966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82966), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- cloud.google.com/go/essentialcontacts: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/eventarc: v1.11.0
- cloud.google.com/go/filestore: v1.6.0
- cloud.google.com/go/functions: v1.13.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gaming: v1.9.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkebackup: v0.4.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkeconnect: v0.7.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkehub: v0.12.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkemulticloud: v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gsuiteaddons: v1.5.0

- Add use internal DNS name for 'hostname' of nodes.
- Add support for CSI spec v0.3.0 for both Cinder and Manilla
- Add 'cascade delete' support for Octavia load balancers to improve performance.
- Add improved load balancer naming.

### SIG-scheduling

SIG Scheduling development efforts have been primarily focused on improving performance and reliability of the scheduler.

* kubectl cp now safely allows unpacking of symlinks that may point outside the destination directory ([#82384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82384), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
* fix azure disk naming matching issue due to case sensitive comparison ([#81720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81720), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

feature gate `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` to GA and locked it to `true` by default. The kubelet related ConfigMap and RBAC rules are now locked to have a simplified naming `*kubelet-config` instead of the legacy naming `*kubelet-config-x.yy`, where `x.yy` was the version of the control plane. If you have previously used the old naming format with `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap=false`, you must manually copy the config map from `kube-system/kubelet-config-x.yy` to `kube-system/kubelet-config` before...

graduated the `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` feature gate to Beta and enabled the feature by default. This implies that 1) for new clusters kubeadm will start using the `kube-system/kubelet-config` naming scheme for the kubelet ConfigMap and RBAC rules, instead of the legacy `kubelet-config-x.yy` naming. 2) during upgrade, kubeadm will only write the new scheme ConfigMap and RBAC objects. To disable the feature you can pass `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap: false` in the kubeadm config for new clusters....

- Port mapping now allows the same `containerPort` of different containers to different `hostPort` without naming the mapping explicitly. ([#94494](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94494), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev))

- Fix azure disk naming matching issue due to case sensitive comparison ([#81720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81720), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))